October, 1912 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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Formerly Fence Dept., American Wire Form Co. 
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cushions, filled with |'3l 
downy silk floss and 
covered with demin 
of various colors. 
Willow fur¬ 
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with fur- 
one of our 
niture of any style. 
The chair offered 
most popular models, being exceedingly comfort¬ 
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pocket for sewing or magazines. 
May be stained to harmonize with any color 
scheme at a slight additional expense. 
Our catalogue of many artistic models de- ’ 
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on request. 
MINNET & CO., (Established 1898 ) 
Manufacturers of High Grade Willow Furniture 
Lexington Ave., bet. 40th and 41st Sts., NEW YORK I 
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v HOME LIGHTING 
end of the trough the water collected and 
ran out of a small opening and dripped 
into a large tin pan placed there to receive 
it. After each watering this pan was re¬ 
moved and its contents emptied. No 
water could thus reach the floor or col¬ 
lect in corners. The place was kept as 
free from unnecessary moisture as could 
be wished for. The beds were as clean 
and sanitary as any outside garden. An 
improvement upon this would be to con¬ 
nect the drip with a pipe run through the 
cellar floor into a barrel filled with loose 
stones or connected with the sewer pipe, 
if possible. The only danger of the 
method used above is that of forgetfulness 
in emptying the pan of water. No great 
harm would follow, however, if this was 
neglected once in a while, but it would be 
unpleasant to have the floor kept in a 
condition of odorous moisture much of the 
time. 
The experts raise as much as two and 
more pounds of mushrooms to the square 
foot of surface, but we were more than 
satisfied to get half that amount. One 
pound to the square foot meant from our 
small room about 150 pounds of winter 
mushrooms. No family could use that 
amount for the home table. However, 
there are always friends who are pleased 
with a present of some. 
By actual weight we gathered 165 
pounds of mushrooms from the three 
shelves. If we had sold this at the ordi¬ 
nary rate of fifty cents a pound we could 
have realized about $82 from the small 
cellar room. That would not have been 
bad from a commercial point of view, but 
from it expenses would have to be de¬ 
ducted, such as cost of spawn, manure, 
freight or express and commissions. 
The second year of our experiment we 
solved still another problem by the shelf 
system. Our trouble was in having too 
many mushrooms all at once. The beds 
began to yield in about six weeks, and for 
a month or more the yield was so heavy 
that the crop could not be used up. We 
had to give away, and actually waste, a 
good many. At the end of the second 
month the supply began to wane a little, 
and in three months it was down pretty- 
well. The solution of the problem was 
simplicity itself. We simply planted the 
shelves in rotation. The first one was 
spawned early in the fall, and six weeks 
later the second was planted, and two 
months later the third. The result was 
that we had a continuous season of 
growth. One shelf supplied all the mush¬ 
rooms that a family could eat a month or 
two, and by the time they were all gathered 
the second bed began to ripen, and then in 
turn the third shelf followed. Thus we 
limited the supply for any one month and 
extended the season over the longest possi¬ 
ble period. One might in this way easily 
keep the table supplied with fresh mush¬ 
rooms from early fall until spring, and 
then by that time outdoor beds could be 
started. For the lover of these delicious 
edibles there would then be no in-between 
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Successor to Meriden Britannia Co. 
Meriden, Conn. 
PRIVATE ELECTRIC PLANT 
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